toot – English noun declension

English noun forms of toot

Noun: toot
Singulartoot
Pluraltoots

Sample Sentences

  • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
  • So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life. [1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30:]
  • I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!
  • As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform. [2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine:]
  • Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long. [2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:]
  • Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter. [2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:]
  • So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline. [2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:]

Etymology

1. Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
2. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”). See: Swedish Nouns 'tuta'.

Verbs referencing "toot"

Danish Nouns tud.